Edward Wake-Walker, born in 1952, is the great nephew of Barbara Bertram. The son of a Royal Navy officer, he was educated at Marlborough College and Aix-en-Provence University before joining the staff of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1975. He has travelled extensively through Europe, the USA and South America, representing the RNLI as their PR director, and he has also published five books on the history of saving life at sea. Edward lives on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, and, since leaving the RNLI in 2002, has become a full-time writer.
Edward Wake-Walker, born in 1952, is the great nephew of Barbara Bertram. The son of a Royal Navy officer, he was educated at Marlborough College and Aix-en-Provence University before joining the staff of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1975. He has travelled extensively through Europe, the USA and South America, representing the RNLI as their PR director, and he has also published five books on the history of saving life at sea. Edward lives on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, and, since leaving the RNLI in 2002, has become a full-time writer.
'Edward Wake-Walker's meticulously researched chronicles of desperate resistance, audacity, duty, determination and daring are a valuable addition to the history of World War II - and yet another reminder of that extraordinary light within the human spirit which flames even in the darkest times' - Bel Mooney, Daily Mail
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